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Once it floats with water, it's got very weighty components to it, the landing gear and the engines, of course. so it's not going to remain afloat in the water column. it's going to be negatively buoyant and go to the bottom. >> another viewers asked, flying as high and slow as possible to save fuel, would it have been possible to reach australia with the original fuel quantity? what do you think, steve? >> well, we have to calculate that. actually, you don't want to fly as slow as possible. it doesn't get better mileage at a slow speed. the airplane is designed for one person, which is to be ...

Citizens to take the action necessary to provide for the safety and security of the traveling public. >> reporter: stephanie elam, cnn. >> and i want to bring back my panel here. jim tillman, many people have been surprised that there were no camera in the cockpit. should they be mandatory going forward? >> no. the pilot is scrutinized more completely than any other profession on the planet. they know that we have moved the controls a certain way. they know we moved certain power

Smile on his face and was quick to share a friendly greeting. this morning, we send our c condolences to all of them. >> the response seems really fast. the ntsb team was on site very fast. why did it happen? >> let's bring in earl weiner. he has been at the scene of the derail. . he is overseeing this investigation. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> so we know that the recording devices that have the data of what was going on with the train was collected. do we know anything yet about why this happened? >> we are still in the process of downloading the data and validating it. we h...

She sets up for what i think is going to be the final landing here at jfk. so, scott, just imagine that you are the pilot of that 747 with 90 tons of space shuttle on board. what are you doing, what are you thinking? >> well, what you're thinking is everybody in the world is watching you right now and you sure don't want to mess this one up. jon: that's for sure. you mentioned the drag of the, just the aeronautical drag of having the shuttle onboard that big 747. it's a pretty fine touch on the throttles i imagine as you try to bring this thing in for the last time? >> well, yeah, the pilots, ...

So-and-so, squawk 5512. if they wanted to signal something such as an emergency in flight they would squawk 7700. that can be done in a matter of seconds, so what we can deduce from this is something must have happened and it must have been so severe that it didn't give these pilots an opportunity to number one communicate on the radio system and it didn't give them an opportunity to put in a squawk code. these are the power settings right here. left engine right engine. this is the trim wheel. you can do that electronically or manually. this is the flight management system. it is so easy to t...